I am a reporter at
ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in New York. I am contacting you
to let you know that we are including your website in a list of sites that have
been designated as hate or extremist by the American Defamation League or the
Southern Poverty Law Center. We have identified all the tech platforms that are
supporting websites on the ADL and SPLC lists.

We would like to ask
you a few questions:

1) Do you disagree
with the designation of your website as hate or extremist? Why?

2) We identified
several tech companies on your website: PayPal, Revcontent, Disqus, and
Newsmax. Can you confirm that you receive funds from your relationship with
those tech companies? How would the loss of those funds affect your operations,
and how would you be able to replace them?

3) Have you been
shut down by other tech companies for being an alleged hate or extremist web
site? Which companies?

4) Many people
opposed to sites like yours are currently pressuring tech companies to cease
their relationships with them – what is your view of this campaign? Why?

Our deadline is 5pm
EST today.

Thank you,

Lauren Kirchner

“She had asked me, ‘Have you been shut down by other tech companies
for being a hate site?’ I mean, you have to love the assumption that I’m a hate
site because I cover jihad terror-related news and sharia. That’s the focus of
the website,” Geller said.

And these were loaded questions. When did you stop beating your wife?
A question no modern prosecutor would dare ask a witness, especially not a
Muslim.

Is the campaign to shut down sites that purportedly express “hate
speech,” or “racism,” or the alleged defamation of Islam and Muslims,
censorship for the sake of wielding censoring power, or is it to keep the
public in the dark, to enforce ignorance, to create and sustain a dead silence?
“Ignorance is Strength”? Whose strength? Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four worked in Minitru producing “fake news.” In
the film and in the novel, a Party superior compliments Smith for his “elegant”
rewriting of news in Newspeak (although how one can lend “elegance” to Newspeak
is beyond my ken).

Is their purpose to make the electronic ether as barren of information
as Mars is as barren of boxwoods and roses?

Pro
Publica can be likened to a person whose body has been “snatched” in the Body Snatchers. He’s now one of
the alien collective, and when he’s sniffed out someone who hasn’t been
absorbed into the collective, he points and screams the alert to other body
snatchers to capture the non-conformist. This is with the help of the Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a misnomer if there
ever was one, because it seems to have unlimited
funds to compile fake lists of sites, individuals, and maps of those guilty
of “hate speech,” “racism,” and other Marxist crimes.

Far from poor,
SPLC raises tens of millions of dollars annually, and has grown an endowment of
over $250 million. The group maintains offshore bank accounts in the West
Indies.

A 1996 USA
Today article called the Southern Poverty Law Center "the nation's
richest civil rights organization" with $68 million in assets. According
to a 2007 Harper's Magazine article, SPLC listed assets totaling $168
million, and pointed out that the sum was more than the annual GDP of the
Marshall Islands at the time. Line 20 on
the 2008 IRS form 990 for the Southern Poverty Law Center lists total assets of
$221,434,949.00.

It is good to see
Fox News reported on how PayPal has banned our organization, the American Freedom Defense
Initiative. Even though they restored it, this isn’t over. The left is
working hard to shut us off from all means of communication. It’s coming down
fast, while hate groups like CAIR and the SPLC are getting millions from
left-wing corporate managers. The SPLC received a two million dollar pledge
from Apple and MGM Resorts International will match employees’ donations to
terror tied group CAIR.

The left is awash in
funding. And they still mean to cut off everything from those working in
defense of the free and the brave. But this time, they lost.

So, the purpose of quasi-government censorship via the giant tech
companies such as Google
and Apple, and financial systems like PayPal, is not just to silence
“offensive” blog sites and to control personal emails, but to suffocate the
public into soundless and voiceless silence. And to create a permanent pall of ignorance. The
Left has a long history of blanking out reality, and it wishes to force Americans
to blank out as well. Ayn Rand wrote long ago, in Atlas Shrugged:

Dropping below the level
of a savage, who believes that the magic words he utters have the power to
alter reality, they believe that reality can be altered by the power of the
words they do not utter—and their magic tool is the blank-out, the
pretense that nothing can come into existence past the voodoo of their refusal
to identify it.

And if Americans won’t blank out voluntarily or be terrorized into it,
the Left has Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the other neo-Nazis and gangs are on
standby with clubs and guns to make sure you do.

If you doubt that today’s demonstrators are engaged in voodoo and savagery,
just observe them.

The Left, in alliance with Islam, is determined to sequester and
imprison man’s mind. That is the long and short of it. “Were you ever there?”
asks Ezra Levant of The Rebel Media. The
Left doesn’t want you to know. It prefers you to somehow live and exist in a
state of cluelessness.

Your title, "Ignorance is Strength" could not be more apt. And Pamela Geller's experience probably just a harbinger of more to come. Clearly, our days are numbered.

The "state of cluelessness" is exactly the aim of the US educational system. The US public education is a huge success for the "Progressives."

Students want no monuments, no history, no definitions, no future, no past, no responsibility, no differences of opinion and no rights. Progressives might score this an A+, but in reality, it is the rule of the ZERO.

Edward Cline, American Novelist

Edward Cline was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1946. After graduating from high school (in which he learned nothing of value) and a stint in the Air Force, he pursued his ambition to become a novelist. His first detective novel, First Prize, was published in 1988 by Mysterious Press/Warner Books, and his first suspense novel, Whisper the Guns, was published in 1992 by The Atlantean Press. First Prize was republished in 2009 by Perfect Crime. The Sparrowhawk series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period has garnered critical acclaim (but not yet from the literary establishment) and universal appreciation from the reading public, including parents, teachers, students, scholars, and adult readers who believe that American history has been abandoned or is misrepresented by a government-dominated educational establishment. He is dedicated to Objectivism, Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason in all matters.